Researchers from Texas A&M University report significant advances in their understanding and control of a chameleon-like material that could be key to developing next-generation computers that are even more powerful than today’s silicon-based machines. See full story here. Read the full technical paper (“Modulating the Hysteresis of an Electronic Transition: Launching Alternative Transformation Pathways in the Metal–Insulator Transition of Vanadium(IV) Oxide”) here.

Shamberger was notified that he is the recipient of the 2017 New Materials Educator award by ASEE, Materials Division. Shamberger will receive the award and present a paper at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference in Columbus, OH.

‘Impact of cycle-hysteresis interactions on the performance of giant magnetocaloric effect refrigerants’ by Brown, Karaman, and Shamberger is selected by MRS for the “Best Paper award of 2016” for their Emerging Investigators Edition. See the full volume here.